Milos Karol and Michal Krajci will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Milos Karol who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Milos Karol is the pick to win this match.
Milos Karol -> 1.24
Michal Krajci -> 3.72

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Prediction and head to head Milos Karol vs. Michal Krajci

There is no head to head record between Milos Karol and Michal Krajci since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Milos Karol

Ranked no. 357 (career-high), Karol will start his run in the Istanbul Challenger after he played his last match in the Manacor Challenger where he lost 7-6(7) 6-3 to Masur in the qualifications on the 25^th of August.

The Slovakian has an overall 24-21 win-loss record in 2025, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Karol’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Warmbad Villach.

Talking about his overall career, Karol has an overall 135-124 record. He has a positive 16-15 record on hard.

Previously in the Istanbul Challenger

The Slovakian has never competed in this tournament before.

Michal Krajci

Ranked no. 664, Michal reached the 1^st round after defeating Max Wiskandt 3-6 6-1 6-1 and Mert Alkaya 6-4 7-5.

In the qualifications, Michal had a good straight sets win against Alkaya (6-4 7-5). During the match Krajci scored 76 points vs Alkaya’s 67. Michal was quite aggressive to blast 41 winners.

Talking about serving, Krajci bagged 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Michal Krajci conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Krajci put 77% of his first serves in, winning 72% (41/57) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. Michal broke Alkaya twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Krajci started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.

The Slovakian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh and M25 Sharm ElSheikh.

Michal has a composed 41-20 win-loss record in 2025, 36-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Istanbul Challenger

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• Mert Naci TurkerNaci Turker – Kaya ArincArinc (7-6³ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (7-6⁵ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lukas KleinKlein – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

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